Wait does the Aladdin XT modchip even use 5Vdc. I think it's only powered by 3.3Vdc from pin 9 of the LPC debug header. This voltage supply level is reconnected when doing the LPC rebuild on a 1.6 console.

Also in the first post it says we should only have one wire the L1 On the 1.6.

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Why would there be more than one wire to L1 for any console? I need to re-read the first post and get back to you on what I think they are talking about.

Update: If I understand the first post, L1 is tied to a 1.6's LFRAME signal for the Aladdin XBlast modchip. Instead of using D0 as with other versions of the Xbox. I'm not even sure it has to be tied to L1 as I thought the 1.6's are always trying to load the BIOS across the LPC bus.

This morning I was using my HW-USBN-2A to program some chips again.
It really sucks I needed an external power supply to make it work.

This make me think, the USB supplies 5V to the programmer, and normally should also have some 3.3V.
So I opened up my HW-USBN-2A, and used my multimeter, and found a point where I have 3.3v.
I soldered a wire to the VCC pin, but it still did not work.

So I solders a wire from the two ground point to one of the legs of the USB shield.
this still did not work, than I found out the ground tracks around the board are a different ground.
I soldered a wire to this point and now It is working !
Don't need an external power supply, and it is working great, I already did 5 chips with it.
I think tomorrow I will solder in a switch so I can turn the 3.3V off, although I am just using this for the Aladdin modchips.